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Transportation/Supply Chain

Princeton Consultants has been an industry innovator and trailblazer since our founding in 1981. Our systems are used today for planning and real-time operation for many of the largest transportation and supply chain networks in the world, including five of the six major Class I freight railroads, North America's largest shared rail car pool, global multimodal / intermodal networks, national and regional TL / LTL fleets, the largest air cargo outsourcer, and one of the world's largest passenger airlines.

Efficient Transportation through Optimization

All modern transportation and supply chain networks share the need to plan and execute to the highest standard--balancing cost efficiency with service.

Princeton Consultants blends the best of innovative optimization know-how with project management and implementation experience in headquarters and field installations.

Our commitment is to help our clients achieve their highest, their optimal performance.

Key Results

Improve asset utilization

Reduce empty miles

Improve loaded ratios

Reduce service variability

Improve pricing through yield management

Improve Return On Investment

High-value Optimization Target Areas

Strategic

Processes & Systems Optimization

Routing & Scheduling

Facilities

Tactical

Network Planning

Sales

Facility capacity

Linehaul capacity

Drayage capacity

Equipment

Operational

Load Planning

Order Acceptance

Facility execution

Linehaul execution

Drayage execution

Equipment execution

Companies we serve

Our clientele includes leaders in all four modal legs of global transport:

Princeton Consultants News

The current issue of ORMS Today features Princeton Consultants Optimization Principal Irv Lustig's summary of the results from a survey conducted during the INFORMS Analytics conference earlier this year in Orlando. Survey participants weighed in on technology and industry trends and their impact on operations research.

GE's Mind + Machines

If your organization is a factory for producing decisions, how do you measure and improve output? How can private and public sector leaders take advantage of optimization? Princeton Consultants CEO Steve Sashihara addressed these and other issues in a featured presentation at GE's Mind + Machines Conference in Chicago.

Princeton Consultants Wins Amazon Web Services' First Spotathon

"Princeton Consultants' OptiSpotter is an exciting, innovative application taking advantage of AWS Spot Instances that dramatically improves the speed and cost-effectiveness of big data quantitative research. The judges of our first Spotathon coding challenge were impressed with their creative approach."